I just confirmed the food arrangements. We'll have a lunch set up for Monday as people arrive, and then a dinner brought in for the group Monday evening. We'll have the space as late as we'd like, so if people want a game of Werewolf...

Tuesday we'll have breakfast in the meeting room, and for lunch I thought it might be nice to reserve a few tables at Charlies, one of our larger cafes. An afternoon snack will be arranged as well.

No plans for Tuesday evening; perhaps someone else wants to plan something for after we finish?

Update by DeWitt on 2007-04-13, copied from an email sent to atom-protocol:

Hi all,

I'm very pleased to see that we have nearly 20 people planning on attending the APP Interop event next week. Everyone that has signed up is bringing real code and the languages and services represented are especially diverse and interesting. The in-person participants will do their best to "simulcast" the event in the IRC channel for those that are unable to make it to Mountain View.

We'll be meeting on Monday in "Hurd Point" in Building 46, which is at 1565 Charleston Rd, Mountain View, CA, right across the street from buildings 40-43 (the center of campus). Please arrive around noon for introductions. Dinner will be served in the evening and we have the space as late as we need it.

On Tuesday, we'll meet early at 8:30 AM in "Benghazi" in Building 43, which is at 1600 Ampitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA. We have the room until 6:00 PM.

Please contact me if you have any logistical questions. I look forward to seeing everyone in person next week!

Who's Invited

Proposed Agenda

W/W/W/W. Everyone gets a few minutes stand-up time to do the who/ what/why/where of their APP client and/or server implementation. No slides! Since I imagine that some people will drift in late, whenever someone arrives, they do the w/w/w/w as soon as they've put their bag down. Let's try to capture everyone's W/W/W/W essentials somewhere on Sam's wiki.

Interop! We will build a grid with the clients across the top and the servers down the side (because there are more servers than clients), then we'll try to interop all the cells. The grid is at InteropGrid.

Issue-gathering. This is the most important activity. Let's do this on the wiki in real-time, so that people on IRC can play. An APP Interoperability Issue can be raised by anyone during their initial w/w/w/w preso, and I assume that lots will turn up during the grid-filling. I do not suppose that we will achieve 100% consensus on what's an issue and what isn't, nor on how to fix any obvious ones that turn up. That's OK; the important thing is to gather the information. I see two forms of issues: "XXX in the spec has been shown to cause interop problems" and "XXX in the spec is sufficiently badly written that implementors have been shown to draw incompatible conclusions about what it says."

Remember, per IETF rules and common sense, the people at the interop session are *not* empowered to make changes to the protocol. Only the WG, via the mailing list, can do that.

Werewolf?

I don't suppose there will be time for a rousing game of werewolf?! Can that be added to the agenda? [ByrneReese]

Remote

For folks who cannot attend in person, several of us will be hanging out on irc.freenode.net #atom during the interop.